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Pierre-Simon Laplace

1749 - 1827

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Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (; French: [pjɛʁ simɔ̃ laplas]; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five-volume Mécanique céleste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799–1825). This work translated the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus, opening up a broader range of problems. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre-Simon Laplace has received more than 2,313,531 page views. His biography is available in 100 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 97 in 2019). Pierre-Simon Laplace is the 16th most popular mathematician, the 83rd most popular biography from France and the 3rd most popular French Mathematician.

Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer who is most famous for his work on probability theory and the nebular hypothesis.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pierre-Simon Laplace ranks 16 out of 823Before him are Bertrand Russell, Al-Biruni, Bernhard Riemann, Pierre de Fermat, Fibonacci, and John Forbes Nash Jr.. After him are John von Neumann, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Henri Poincaré, Diophantus, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and Joseph Fourier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Pierre-Simon Laplace ranks 3Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Edward Jenner. After him are Christian VII of Denmark, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Nicolas Appert, Domenico Cimarosa, Yolande de Polastron, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Daniel Rutherford, and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre. Among people deceased in 1827, Pierre-Simon Laplace ranks 3Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven and Alessandro Volta. After him are Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, William Blake, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, Wilhelm Hauff, Samuel Crompton, Maria Theresa of Austria, Ugo Foscolo, and Ernst Chladni.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre-Simon Laplace ranks 83 out of 6,011Before him are Pope Urban II (1042), Marquis de Sade (1740), Gustave Courbet (1819), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Louis the Pious (778), and Caracalla (188). After him are Edward IV of England (1442), Louis Philippe I (1773), Charles X of France (1757), Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), and Napoleon II (1811).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre-Simon Laplace ranks 3Before him are Blaise Pascal (1623) and Pierre de Fermat (1601). After him are Henri Poincaré (1854), Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717), Joseph Fourier (1768), Évariste Galois (1811), Pope Sylvester II (938), François Viète (1540), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Sophie Germain (1776), and Gaspard Monge (1746).